On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote: > > > >>You might want to set the IPaddress to 127.0.0.1 by default (or we need > >> to change the setup.java utility to assume 127.0.0.1 by default) > >>becasue we get an error afterwards. > >> > > > >Nooooo! The IP address given here is the IP address which a node will > >tell other nodes to connect to, obviously 127.0.0.1 is inappropriate for > >this. It must be the IP address that other nodes must connect to to > >reach this node. > > > So what do you have to do for dial up nodes where the IP changes on > every start? These are transient nodes so nobody should need to connect Actually, many of them are permanent nodes, (my ISP keeps a dialup open for several days before forcing reconnect). > to them, yet do they require a value. I was told that using any value > e.g. 127.0.0.1 is fine for these transient nodes. > Otherwise the node itself should figure its current IP on startup itself > *if* there is *no* value specified. > It's hardly appropriate to change the .ini entry by an external porgram > before every start, is it? > > Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
-- The road to Tycho is paved with good intentions _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
